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Lawfare Archive: David Priess on the History of the President's Daily Brief

The Lawfare Podcast

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The Politics of Intelligence Briefings

Most presidential candidates have taken advantage of this since the 1950s. The idea was to make sure that somebody who might be inheriting the most powerful office in the world would start to understand the world's situation. Jimmy Carter told me he took it because he didn't want to inadvertently say something that would make his foreign policy more difficult to do.

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